We published a book!

Our first anthology is hot off the press

A few weeks ago, we announced that SmallStack is becoming a publisher of real books — the kind you can hold in your hand, doodle in the margins, and admire on your shelf. Today, we are thrilled to make it official with the release of You Are Enough: A Small Anthology.

Small Anthology, Big Love

You Are Enough began as a collection of essays from our SmallStack guest post series. We invited this community to create something new, sincere, and insightful about being small, and we received touching pieces about love, acceptance, grief, joy, creativity, and community.

"All we have is small," by

SuddenlyJamie

, chips away at the barriers we construct around perfection and how long it takes to achieve our own impressions of success.

Alexa Spiegel

's "Is Substack better than therapy," and

Amanda

's "A new diagnosis" each tackle how we heal through our connections with others, even-especially-when that healing challenges our identity. "Small is where the best connections are made," by

Sarah Teresa Cook

, "Enough to be happy," by

Kate Brennan

, and "Beyond questions big and small" by

Sarah Sadie

use introspection and delightful imagery in embracing small as its own choice in the face of growth metrics. They help us view the world through the lens of laughter, wonder, and gratitude. Would any book about small stories be complete without a bakery and a moment spent in wonder at how monkeys and humans form friendship through communication?

Rachel Shenk

’s "The stay small recipe," and

Sanjida Kay

’s "What monkeys can tell us about community" show us that hunger and curiosity brighten our journey of discovery toward understanding small.

You Are Enough was produced entirely (and so, so lovingly) with volunteer labor, so we have decided to sell it at cost. We will sell future books for a profit, first and foremost so that we can pay our writers and cover illustrators, and also because we’d like to continue publishing books — lots of books!

Announcing Small Robin Press

For the past few months, we’ve had an ongoing discussion about the future of SmallStack and where we wanted to go next. We always knew we were building more than a library. The shape of something bigger hovered just out of sight, a felt sense of possibility we couldn’t yet name.

We dreamed of starting a publishing company one day, of creating a space where writers without large platforms and Big Five book deals, who had perhaps looked at traditional publishing and thought, I don’t belong here, could find a home that would let their words take wing. This dream felt very far away until we realized that through our work with SmallStack, we’d been planting the seeds all along.

In June 2025, we officially launched Small Robin Press. But don’t worry! We’ll still be here on SmallStack as your friendly neighborhood Robins, though we’re learning to “branch out,” too¹. The SmallStack Library isn’t going anywhere. Our mission to lift up small voices, both on and off Substack, feels more alive than ever.

What’s Next and How You Can Help

We’ll be opening submissions for our second anthology this fall. We’ll share more information on the topic, dates, and submission guidelines very soon — if you’re interested in submitting, make sure you’re subscribed to SmallStack so you don’t miss it!

In the meantime, we’d like to humbly ask for your help as we get our tiny press off the ground. As our values continue to diverge from those espoused by Substack leadership, we can’t in good conscience keep asking for paid subscriptions on this platform. However, you can support Small Robin Press and this community in the following ways:

• Buy our book! Bonus points for sharing a picture.

• Make a donation with Ko-Fi.

• Share this post to help us spread the word.

One Million Thank-You’s

You will be shocked to learn that midwifing a book is hard. Endless decisions, details, checks, double-checks, and probably a few new gray hairs went into its making. We’re immensely grateful to our authors, the SmallStack team, and especially this community for making this book possible. Thank you, thank you, a million times thank you.

We can’t wait to make the next one.

Robin Taylor and Robin Cangie, co-founders of Small Robin Press

1. Cuz that’s a little bird. On a branch. That was funny, right?